While welcoming Sri Lankan government's work to quickly resettle nearly 280,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) following the three-decade long conflict in May 2009, the United States said today that it remains concerned about the rushed resettlement of the final IDPs to close the Menik Farm camp.

Sri Lanka police announced today that a Rs. 500,000 cash award will be offered for correct information leading to the arrest of the suspects over the assault on the secretary of the Judiciary Services Commission (JSC) Manjula Tilakaratne.

Yielding to the pressure from Tamil Nadu political parties which vehemently oppose providing military assistance to Sri Lanka, the Indian government has asked its Navy to conduct joint naval exercises with Sri Lanka in the seas away from the four southern states.